#skin

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ↗

— Paul Engle

#blooded #delicate #emotions #held #ideas

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#after #asking #call #died #done

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#dancing #did #done #following #future

This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#biggest #comfortable #core #core values #general

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#elaborate #end #like #manner #only

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#feel #i #lost #mafia #men

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#being #got #kid #me #skinny

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#asking #discover #finding #formulate #know

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#beings #empress #i #i am #i write

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#asking #better #exercise #kids #practice